IT WAS a lucky miss for one Nicosia resident yesterday morning as a Turkish mortar shell crashed through her roof and into her bedroom while she was at work.
Panicked neighbours rushed to call emergency services as the practice shell – which fortunately wasn’t live – flew over the Green Line from the north, causing what witnesses described as a “deafening crash” as it came down.
THE PROPERTY issue will be discussed towards the end of this year or early next year President Demetris Christofias said after yesterday’s meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat
THE STATE was yesterday criticised for not putting enough emphasis on promoting the Cyprus problem abroad.
Famagusta Mayor and president of the Municipalities Union Alexis Galanos said this is a problem that concerns all the governments since the Turkish invasion in 1974.
TWO YOUNG women were wounded in two separate hit and run accidents which took place in Limassol and Paphos a few hours apart from each other.
A 30-YEAR OLD Cypriot woman was killed by a drunk driver in New York on Sunday when the cab in which she was a passenger was broadsided violently by a Range Rover.
The female cab driver Bessy Velasquez, 41, was also killed.
THE CYPRUS Tourism Organisation (CTO) yesterday asked Parliament to approve a supplementary budget to help it boost winter tourism.
According to CTO Chairman Panos Englezos, the organisation is seeking over €4 million in a bid to improve winter tourism and effectively help the Cyprus economy.
YERMASOYIA Municipality in Limassol has announced the launch of a campaign to improve disabled access within its borders. The move was made both to uphold the rights of disabled people, but also to tap into the disabled tourist market, particularly from Europe.
FINANCE Minister Charilaos Stavrakis yesterday defended the government’s package of measures to support the economy and questioned whether commercial banks were as cash-strapped as they made out.
THE GOVERNMENT’S primary aim is to find a fair and viable solution to the Cyprus problem, while promoting its positions abroad, the Foreign Minister said yesterday.
Presenting his ministry’s budget for 2009, Minister Markos Kyprianou said the state was planning to create new diplomatic missions abroad.
“I STATE without reservations that Greece would never agree to anything that would harm the best interests of Cyprus,” Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou announced yesterday.
The minister was addressing the House Foreign Affairs Committee during discussions on the recent appointment of Turkey as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
